Tuesday, June 19, 2007

Gearing Up for Short-Season Ball.....

US MINORS:R - Lin is currently not listed on the Red Sox GCL roster - but do expect him to play in the GCL soon. The Red Sox won 2-1 today. Starting at 3B C.H. Huang was 0-3 with a walk. Box

SS A - Sheng-An Kuo is on the Tri-City Dust Devils roster. He was scheduled to pitch the season opener - and promptly won in his debut. Kuo pitched 5 innings, allowing 4 runs (3 earned) on 6 hits. BoxRead more about Kuo here. *Edited/Updated

CPBL:Elephants 5 - Lions 2: Relief pitcher Todd Moser was voted game MVP for helping to shut down the Lions offense over 4 innings. All of the Lions runs came on Tilson Brito's 2 run shot (15th on the season) in the first inning. Chia-Chia was 1-4 for the Elephants. Pete Munro earned a ND despite a stellar performance - 7 innings - 2 runs - 8 hits - 5 K's.Bears 5 - Bulls 2: CF Long-Yi Huang earned game MVP honors after going 4-5 with a double and 2 RBI's. 1B Kuo-Long Hsu was 3-4 for the Bulls while Tarzan was 1-3.

Amateur:

The Yu-Shan Cup is going on in Taiwan to help determine which kids will represent Taiwan in the AAA Asian Junior Baseball Championships (will take place in Taichung, Taiwan at the end of August through early September). Taipei County - one of the team entries, is represented by two of the bigger names in the tourney - pitchers Chih-Lung Huang (who has been clocked at 93 mph in the tourney) and Rong-Hao Hsieh.